Chip Gubera | |
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Born |
Christopher Charles Gubera October 7, 1975 Joplin, Missouri, United States |
Alma mater |
Joplin High School, 1994 University of Missouri, BA 1999 University of Missouri, MEd 2009 |
Occupation | Film director, producer, professor |
Years active | 2001 – present |
Joplin High School, 1994 University of Missouri, BA 1999
Chip Gubera is an American film director and producer. He also teaches digital media technology at the University of Missouri in the IT Program.
Chip Gubera currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, where he teaches digital media technology in the Information Technology Program at the University of Missouri. He also freelances as a visual effects/motion graphics artist and a music composer.
In the last 10 years Chip Gubera has directed and/or produced five feature films and over 30 short films, 17 of which have been accepted at film festivals around the world. Eight of these films have won awards at festivals worldwide and three have had distribution. A short film titled Song of the Dead was released in 2004 on Fangoria magazine's Blood Drive hosted by Rob Zombie. From the short film came the feature-length zombie-musical also titled Song of the Dead. Song of the Dead, Gubera's first feature film starring Reggie Bannister (Phantasm series and Bubba Ho-Tep), has currently been screened at several national and international festivals and has won awards in the US, Spain, and Argentina.
Gubera directed two feature films with the University of Missouri starring legendary Mexican masked wrestler Mil Máscaras. The film was entitled Academy of Doom. He replaced Jeff Burr as director of Mil Mascaras Vs. The Aztec Mummy in 2008. Both of these films screened at festivals around the world. In the summer of 2009, both Song of the Dead and Mil Mascaras Vs. The Aztec Mummy found a limited US theatrical release. In 2010 Mil Mascaras Vs. The Aztec Mummy was screened to an enthusiastic audience at the Fantasia Film Festival.